...Kelly McKisson Abstract This article focuses on figures of subsidence in Jesmyn Ward’s novels of Bois Sauvage. Subsidence not only describes an actual process of sinking land in the US Gulf Coast bioregion but also refigures how those who study climate change can understand and address its material...

... landscapes, how it continues to exert violent agency through infrastructure and design. In readings of two twenty-first-century novels by Black writers—Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) and Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad (2016)—I show how Ward and Whitehead use the friction between...

... farms that Jesmyn Ward represents in Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017), and the postbellum medical experiments evoked by Colson Whitehead in The Underground Railroad (2016), Evans shows how the temporal collapses of Black gothicism and geomemory serve to puncture the aggressive forward drive...

.... 7 Contemporary texts that surpass the paradigm of representation as a mode of objectification, pathologization, or surveillance, or of imagining a futurity for the poor only by way of uplift, include fiction by Allison, Gloria Naylor, Jesmyn Ward, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Junot Díaz, and Tommy Orange...